Anyone who claims to cure AIDS can immediately be dismissed as a drooling moron. People in African nations are dealing with an HI epidemic because of heterosexuals. But what can we expect from yet another third world theocratic cr@phole (anyone noticed that all theocracies are cr@pholes? Maybe because belief in supernatural drivel is a useful tool of oppression and control for those who live in palaces….)

And an Asian trait. And it was a German trait. Basically, it’s a ‘trait’ of any country which is screwed up and has a largely uneducated population, and therefore wants a scapegoat to bring them together.
I think that the people who kill gays/call for their murders etc. are twisted, awful people, but I don’t think that they’re like this because they’re African. There are sh*tty people in every society. Only, in broken ones, they’re able to become the leaders and nobody will question them because they all have so little education (or, the people who do question them are in a minority). It’s not about race/geography. It’s about opportunity.

I pointed out that AI and HRW are silent about the Cairo Declaration. If they could multi-task they would be able to criticise any Israeli human rights abuses AND alert the west to the fact that islamic nations have rejected the UN Declaration.

Obviously you like the fact that Israel should be held to a higher moral standard than islamic states. Shame on you.

I don’t hate Jews. Israel does not represent the entire Jewish community.

It’s a really good argument though, isn’t it? Because most people tend to back off when you accuse them of anti-semitism and if not, you can always use their alleged prejudices to disguise your own.

“Obviously you like the fact that Israel should be held to a higher moral standard than islamic states. Shame on you.”

Ok then let’s all throw our morals out the window and be like the Islamic states, that’s what you seem to think Israel should do. If you can’t beat them join them is obviously your motto…

The Cairo declaration is something AI work with when they can i.e. to fight for the rights of women and prisoners. It doesn’t mean they think it’s better than the UNDHR, it’s just better than a kick in the teeth.

Given that AI has been around since before 1990, provide us with the links to 20 articles where they comment on the Cairo Declaration (that would be one a year). There are almost 10,000 documents on the AI website concerning Israel and human rights. There are only 3 documents about the CD – and not one of them criticises or treats it in any substantive way.

QED. They are not interested in human rights, as much as they are interested in criticising Israel. Why would that be? They are socialists, just like the followers of the Hitler’s German Workers Party.

joe, i think its true that oppression of the whole nation by another state concerns AI more than actions of some mad idiots against some sections of their society, but that doesn’t mean that AI ignores it completely

Well, they do claim to be a Western style democracy…However I haven’t heard any comment from Israel about the Arab street’s recent success in booting out corrupt torturing dictators… too busy crapping themselves???

No, Mohammedan bashing is justified – their so-called prophet raped a nine-year old girl, ordered poets killed because they offended him, proclaimed that it is alright to murder non-Mohmmedans and take their women for sex-slaves, ordered that gay people be slaughtered, told his followers that a woman’s testimony is only worth half that of a man’s because women are mentally deficient, announced that a charge or rape can only be proved if there are four male witnesses otherwise the woman is merely an adulterer, and on, and on, and on it goes…

Read your Koran and the a’hadith, and study the Sharia law code if you want to find out just how disgusting and vile Mohammedanism really is.

This is a man that said he would “cut off the head” of any gay or lesbian person discovered in the country.

He aso said that people should believe in God, saying that “If you don’t believe in God, you can never be grateful to humanity and you are even below a pig.”

In March 2009 Amnesty International reported that up to 1,000 Gambians had been abducted by government-sponsored “witch doctors” on charges of witchcraft, and taken to detention centers where they were forced to drink poisonous concoctions

While I condemn homophobia, it is unfair to label these countries, and everyone in them, as a “joke” and savages. That’s like calling everyone in the US morons just because of the Tea Party, or everyone at home in the UK racist pricks because of the BNP.

A vile African dictator and human rights oppressor says its not OK to be gay. No doubt he thinks blaming everything on a minority group will deflect his theft of Gambians freedom and pillaging the nations wealth for his own ends.

Why do democratic countries even engage with the likes of Jammeh? Ban his government from from the UN, cut all aid and fund those within Gambia who want to restore democratic process.

If we did that he would soon meet a gruesome death like many a tyrannical dictator has before him.

this one is almost as bad as the shower cure for AIDS, well I hope no one will consider going to this courty for a holiday or allow their hard earned tax money to be spent on looking after the people of this country, I kinow,I’m tired of hearing save the children, or this african country is starving to death, let them, refuse all aid unless there are equal rights for everyone

have you ever been to Gambia? as an openly gay man who have been to Gambia on many occasions it DOES have a culture, just a western one, although Gambia is a muslim state it also have many animism and local cultures which still exist, along with 5 main local languages which sit quite well with the official english language, along with colonial hertiage and slave trade culture.
Please dont judge a country by its despot leader, they voted out of fear ( if they didnt then electric and water would be turned off in the few villages that have it)

I’ve visited The Gambia and whilst the country lacks alot as opposed to what we in the west have materially, the people there are more civilised God fearing respectful people I have come to meet and as for you calling it a hell hole please continue in your sin and you will experience hell the real hell for yourself but Gambia is far from hell and if they don’t agree with homosexuality good for them because the reality is that homosexual lifestyle was not and is not part of God’s plan DEAL WITH IT!!

I don’t get this notion that Gay rights ‘destroy culture’… I mean the Renaissance would have been a non-event without us, not counting the vast numbers of celebrated gay artists, writers and musicians who came since.
Meanwhile Jammah appears to posess about as much culture as a pot of yoghurt.

Well, this is a good lesson for the English. They always love their commonwealth of nations rather than the european union. Honestly I prefer to live in a nation where I am surrounded from people from France, Germany, Sweden, Spain than people from Nigeria, Gambia, Ghana and so on. Of course not all of them are like that but the majority are just using the excuse of the commonwealth to come in UK despite they hate our culture and they don’t have any respect of open dialogue. They just want! So does it still make sense in 2012 to give to these countries of the commonwealth all our money and esier possibility to come and live here?

Surely Islam has something to say in its blasphemy laws about someone like this buffoon ascribing to himself the powers of the divine and claiming that he has these healing powers that his god has revealed to no other living being. I know Islam has something to say prohibiting the practice of witchcraft and sorcery which is all this “cure” and his “divine powers” amount to. A Muslim indeed. If mainstream Islam lets this idiot continue, it is setting itself up to even more ridicule.

Islamic states just use state religion to oppress and violate people’s human rights, including the right to freely worship as one sees fit for one’s own life or not. This use of state religion is no different than how state religion has historically been used to oppress. So the people must be freed from such oppression because once religion is a state religion it is no longer religion but rather politics. Governments shouldn’t bother complaining when they are brought to end for violating human rights. What did they think the end result would be? No sane person perptuates a government that violates the human rights of their family, friends, and neighbors. No government can ever outnumber the people whose human rights they have violated. Government officals need the people they have harmed to uphold the human rights of those government officials for the government to exist at all. Any history book will teach people that – and those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

These people need to dig into their own history before Europe invaded the African continent. Their anti-homosexuality mantra is a European import. Not to offend any European members. We simply need to stop trying to rewrite history.

i think huge poverty and illiteracy in africa, which btw help to sustain devotional approach to religion (and religion is a major element of wide spread homophobia), play a very big part in current attitudes to homosexuality

Anyone who believes that 10% of the earth’s population not breeding will impact humanity’s growth (uh….we just hit 7 billion population…maybe he hasn’t heard that news) is obviously an imbecile. LGBT people have been around as long as heterosexuals have been around and it doesn’t seem logical that suddenly we will impact humanity’s population growth. Really? What a poorly educated person he must be, can’t think clearly, obviously……

The Gambia has a rich culture…I don’t think homophobia should be tolerated either, but don’t condemn an entire country and everyone in it and ridicule every aspect of its culture based on this story from an unelected leader.

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